This is a space dedicated only to original 1980's gothic rock.
A place to explore musical, graphic and historical details related to the genre.
Anything is acceptable as long as it is related to those early "gothic" bands OR others that evolved from them OR bands that keep playing with that '80s original goth style.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

80's goth bands logos pt.II (Sisters of Mercy)

During this early period, goth bands -like most respectful to themselves bands of the 70's- developed a taste for not only a logo (which includes the font for writing in a distinct way the name of the band) but also for a symbol. I think it presents a certain interest, so lets see as many cases as we can...

One of the most notorious logos of all goth history.Recognizable, effective, successful.Actually this is not really the band's logo but their own record company's Merciful Release logo!It also appears on the early singles labels of other bandsthat had signed to M.R. like the March Violets, Salvation and James Ray and the Performance!But it got associated only to the Sisters, I think mainly due to the success of the band and its consistent use in every single release, t-shirts etc.

It's roots go back to 1858 and Henry Gray's anatomical studies.Here's the proof...

During the mid 1990's it got replaced by the following (lame) version...